Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
"Such then is the abode / Of folly in the mind; and such the shapes / In which she governs her obsequious train."Work: The Pleasures of Imaginationhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14383
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14383"Yet the silly wand'ring mind, / Loth to be too much confin'd, / Roves and takes her daily tours, / Coasting round the narrow shores, / Narrow shores of flesh and sense, / Picking shells and pebbles thence: / Or she sits at fancy's door, / Calling shapes and shadows to her, / Foreign visits still...Work: True Riches [from Horae Lyricae, 2nd ed.]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23778
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23778"Bid Fancy quit her fairy cell, / In all her colours drest / While prompt her sallies to control, / Reason, the judge, recalls the soul / To Truth's severest test."Work: Hymn to Sciencehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/12188
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/12188"The Vitall Spirits apprehend thereby / Exposde to danger great suburbs ly, / The which they do desert, and speedily / The Fort of Life the Heart, they Fortify, / The Heart beats up still by her Pulse to Call / Out of the outworks her train Souldiers all / Which quickly come hence."Work: The Effect of Mans Apostacyhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/8414
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/8414